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The KXL Pipeline May Be Dead Thanks To Stunning Liberal Win In Alberta, Canada
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/05/07/kxl-pipeline-liberal-win-alberta/One of the most significant impacts for the United States is that premier-elect Notley is opposed to the Keystone XL pipeline. She has pledged to stop spending money on lobbying Congress for approval of its construction. That doesn’t come out of a concern for the pipeline’s effect on the U.S. but because Alberta has become known as the biggest producer of climate-changing gases in Canada, thanks to the poorly regulated production of tar sands oil.
About 78 percent of Canada’s oil comes out of Alberta. Most of that is from the extraction of dirty tar sands oil, which releases much larger amounts of greenhouse emissions than the regular production of oil.
The head of the environmental group Pembina Institute, Ed Whittingham, hopes that the reputation Alberta has as “a laggard on climate policies” will improve with the change to liberal leadership. He points to the uproar in the United States over the KXL pipeline as an indication that the province’s “social license” to export tar sands oil is coming to an end.
Many onlookers are reluctant to become too excited about the potential for change because the NDP has been light on details of how it will go about reforming the industry. However, the fact that the shift is enormous is undeniable. The NDP, which previously had four seats in the provincial legislature, appear to have won 53. The Conservatives not only lost power, but have fallen to third place after another rightist party.
About 78 percent of Canada’s oil comes out of Alberta. Most of that is from the extraction of dirty tar sands oil, which releases much larger amounts of greenhouse emissions than the regular production of oil.
The head of the environmental group Pembina Institute, Ed Whittingham, hopes that the reputation Alberta has as “a laggard on climate policies” will improve with the change to liberal leadership. He points to the uproar in the United States over the KXL pipeline as an indication that the province’s “social license” to export tar sands oil is coming to an end.
Many onlookers are reluctant to become too excited about the potential for change because the NDP has been light on details of how it will go about reforming the industry. However, the fact that the shift is enormous is undeniable. The NDP, which previously had four seats in the provincial legislature, appear to have won 53. The Conservatives not only lost power, but have fallen to third place after another rightist party.
Note to Addicting Info: It was an NDP (New Democratic Party) win. 'Liberal' is the name of the Third Way-ish party in the Great White North.
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Alberta never went as far as the Republicans crazy talk positions, they were clearly not keen on doing anything about it.
For starters:
Folks understand the difference between weather and climate, it is like an instinct, and when folks hear conservatives everywhere and anywhere insist that there is no difference, and the scientists are all liars and the facts are not the facts, and climate change is not happening even as it obvious just fucking IS...well, they go too far.
And the whole "give more money to rich to help everyone else" is bull shit, folks see that also...the traditional media is no longer in control of the message or the messenger.
